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appfleet joins Cloudflare
appfleet is a Poland based company that develops and offers edge hosting of containerised apps. Edge computing is a trend that emerged a few years back and allows to bring applications closer to the end user, therefore reducing latency and improving user experience. Cloudflare, a player strong in this space, now acquired appfleet, augmenting it’s portfolio of workers with container capabilities. No details of the deal have been made public, however, we will see more of these type of acquisitions with the market starting to consolidate.
Summary: Due to a great synergy between our products, I am happy to announce that Cloudflare and appfleet are joining forces! The appfleet platform is shutting down, with all clusters going offline on October 31st 2021. Long story: When we started working on appfleet our goal was to build an
from the articleSource: appfleet joins Cloudflare
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AI Wrote Better Phishing Emails
WIRED schreibt, dass es Forschern gelungen ist, mit Hilfe von GPT3, dem Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 ML Netzwerk, Phishing Mails zu erzeugen, die deutlich wirksamer sind als von Menschen geschriebene Mails.
Endlich ein Einsatzbereich für AI, der sich auch ohne VC Geld lohnt.
Source: AI Wrote Better Phishing Emails Than Humans in a Recent Test | WIRED
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Malicious PyPI Packages
It was a matter of time. After the npm-repository was hit later last year and ruby gems were found mining crypto-currency, this times it’s PyPI that spreads bad code. Supply chain attacks, as this vector is typically referred to, becomes an increasing problem. Foremost for software vendors.
The rich supply of community maintained packages make particular languages attractive to businesses. Plenty of ready made packages allow to rapidly build the most important components required to bootstrap any SaaS business. Authentication, database connectivity, model view abstraction layers, web request routing, html templating, it all can be found in either of these, at no added cost.
However, nothing in life is free and the price vendors pay is the added risk of unvalidated or unverified sources.
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